Forums vs. mailing lists [was Re: [eclipse-dev] Enhancement request (may

["James Mitchell" <jmitchell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David, thanks for your reply.

Please excuse my ignorance here, I've only been subscribed for a few weeks.

Are there (or were there ever) plans to host the users help forum through
mailing lists?  That approach has been crucial to many other open source
project's success.

I have personally donated at least 3,000 hours over the last 2 and 1/2 years
to monitoring/helping users on the struts-users list at Apache.  This would
not have been possible if I were forced to use forums.  In fact, I would say
that if Apache were to move to forum-based subscriber help, I would probably
not have helped (or continue to this day) very much at all.  My primary
reason being that my daily commute is between 2 to 2 1/2 hours.  Much of
that time I spend having mailing list posts read to me (text2speech is a
wonderful thing!!).

Any chance this will change?



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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Whiteman" <dlwhiteman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [eclipse-dev] Enhancement request (maybe) - CVS colorization


> Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 1:47:06 PM, James Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Hi, sorry if this has been asked before (ya, I'm sure you've never heard
> > that before ;), but I was wondering if there is a ticket open to add
> > colorization to a shared (CVS) project that shows local files that have
been
> > modified and/or not synchronized yet.
>
> > I doubt that I am the first to think of something like this, so I
thought
> > I'd ask.  I tried searching bugzilla and couldn't find anything related.
>
> > I will be creating (and donating) such an enhancement if nothing is
already
> > available.
>
>
> > Thanks in advance!!!
>
> Good idea, James.  In general, you should check bugzilla for a feature
> request, and if it's not there, create one yourself.  If you wanted to
> put out feelers first to see if others had considered the enhancement,
> it's better to use the newsgroups than the mailing list.
>
> David
>
> --
> Regards,
> David Whiteman
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